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Portland’s Rudy Fernandez beat out two fellow rookies Monday in an online vote and will round out the field for the slam dunk contest at All-Star Weekend. Fernandez received 251,868 of the more than 500,00 votes cast on , finishing ahead of Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook (147,279) and Milwaukee’s Joe Alexander (114,963). The Spaniard, who won a silver medal in the Beijing Olympics, will become the first international player to appear in the contest. Defending champion Dwight Howard, 2006 winner Nate Robinson and Rudy Gay already were chosen for the Feb. 14 field. The Associated Press
